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October 2, 2014

Florida Man Convicted of 1st Degree Murder in Retrial for Killing Unarmed Black Teen 
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A Florida jury has convicted Michael Dunn of first-degree murder for
killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis in an argument over loud music at a gas
station in Jacksonville. It was Dunn's second trial after a jury
deadlocked on the first-degree charge earlier this year. Dunn, who is
white, shot at the vehicle carrying Davis and his friends 10 times. He
then fled the scene, went to a hotel with his fiancée and ordered
pizza. He never called the police. The first jury had convicted Dunn of
three counts of attempted murder for shooting at Jordan Davis' friends,
who survived. After the new verdict on Wednesday, Davis' mother, Lucy Mc
Bath, said the conviction marks a victory for all black victims of
racial profiling.

Lucy Mc Bath: "We are very grateful that justice has been served,
justice not only for Jordan, but justice for Trayvon and justice for all
the nameless faces and children and people that will never have a
voice."

Dunn faces up to life in prison without parole.

 

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